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For those unaware, Animal Kingdom is not a nature documentary, but instead a "lively" TNT action-drama about Southern California's best family of bank robbers Think of it as the cool surfer cousin of Sons of Anarchy All that aside, I'm not here to convince you to watch it this time or even to review it.Or[...]

Ex-America's Got Talent judge Gabrielle Union is taking her harassment, discrimination, and retaliation complaints against the show's producers to court, filing a complaint on Thursday in the state of California against FremantleMedia, Simon Cowell’s Syco, and NBCUniversal (with reports that Union will also file a separate suit against Cowell) While the complaint covers many of[...]

Andrew Cuomo and California Gov Gavin Newsom are hearing from Hollywood The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee Task Force has submitted a 22-page set of recommendations and guidelines to be considered by their respective states for the resumption of film, TV, and streaming productions New York and California represent the states with the highest number of[...]

Comic Hero University of Fullerton, California  has been giving away free comic books where one may not expect it, inside students school lunches Even though schools have been shut down, school districts have been handing out lunches to those students who need them And with a little extra reading time on their hands right now,[...]

Only two episodes in and Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is already putting Det. Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and Det. Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) through the wringer. The last episode saw the detectives dealing with the impact of the riot while their investigation into the deaths of the Hazlett family brought them to the doorsteps […]

This Saturday would have been Free Comic Book Day. Last night Steve Geppi told us that it would be restaged in the autumn. The comic book store Collector's Paradise is planning something different dubbed, Stay Away Comic Book Day. In a message to readers, they state; If you know our stores, you must know that […]

Ryan Higgins of Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, California has informed customers that he will only be ordering for subscriptions and special orders from now on, and no longer stocking any comic books 'for the shelf' So if customers want stuff, a) they have to tell him and b) they have to tell him now, as[...]

Travelers from the two major Disney theme parks in California and Florida of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge will have to contend with a souvenir ban of the spherical “thermal detonator” Coke bottles, because of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it looks like a replica explosive The $5 Coke bottles are among over a 1,000 unique[...]

Welcome to my new favorite episode of TNT's Animal Kingdom! Come in, get comfortable, enjoy some of the cake and champagne I set out, because "Ambo" gets wild and crazy – ier, crazier than usual. Well, on a crazy scale of one to Pope, let's put it at like an eleven… hundred. Shall we begin? […]

Hot on the heels of last week's fourth season premiere, the second episode of TNT's Animal Kingdom "Angela" packs just a hard a punch as its season lead-in. Of course, if you haven't seen last week's episode "Janine", there are of course hella spoilers. If you haven't seen it and intend to, you should probably […]

What do you do if you are the season's best new show, but you reach your season finale without having been renewed for a second season? You bring in the big guns… Walking on shift in the beginning of ABC The Rookie's season 1 finale "Free Fall," rookies Nolan (Nathan Fillion), Chen (Melissa O'Neil), and […]

The freshman season of ABC's The Rookie has been a whirlwind ride-along with Mid-Wilshire LAPD rookies Lucy Chen (Melissa O'Neil), Jackson West (Titus Makin Jr.), and John Nolan (Nathan Fillion). In this week's episode "The Checklist," the rookies are preparing for their six month exams and moving to the next phase of their training. But […]

Showtime's sequel series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is welcoming back a familar face from the original series: Rory Kinnear (The Creature) is set to return to the franchise in a pivotal role. Kinnear joins Daniel Zovatto, Natalie Dormer, Jessica Garza, Johnathan Nieves, Nathan Lane, and Adriana Barraza on the follow-up to Penny Dreadful from the original series' creator, […]

We'll be the first ones to admit it: waiting for April 24th to roll around for YouTube Originals' Cobra Kai to return for its second season is taking forever. Coming off an amazingly well-received – by viewers and critics alike –  freshmen season, Jon Hurwitz  (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle), Josh Heald (Hot Tub Time Machine), […]

Stephen Dorff just landed the lead on the pilot for a FOX police drama, tentatively titled Deputy. The show will be a western-themed show set in modern day Los Angeles, with Dorff playing a character not unlike Roland West – the Arkansas Police detective he portrayed on season three of HBO's True Detective. The project is […]

Some exciting casting news for all of the "Dreadfuls" out there: Showtime's sequel series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has cast The Purge alumna Jessica Garza and Johnathan Nieves (New Amsterdam) as series regulars. Garza and Nieves join Daniel Zovatto (Fear the Walking Dead) on the follow-up to Penny Dreadful from the original series' creator, writer and […]

ABC's new drama series The Rookie stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, a 40 year old rookie police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. Nolan and his fellow rookies Jackson West (Titus Makin Jr.) and Lucy Chen (Melissa O'Neil) have to learn their jobs, try not to piss off their training officers, and get past their […]

From there, winners advance to local levels usually sponsored by newspapers, community organizations and universities; with those local winners travelling to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Finals.Ahead of next week's 91st Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, here's a look back to 2017 and at how the 291 spelling champs from across the country and around[...]

The precinct at ABC's The Rookie continues to get crowded, with word that Ray Donovan's Alyssa Diaz has been charged as a series regular in the light crime drama series. Written by former Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley and executive produced by series star Nathan Fillion (Castle), the Mark Gordon/Entertainment One and ABC Studios production also […]

[caption id="attachment_785502" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Credit: JStone / Shutterstock.com[/caption]Cardi B, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5 and Camila Cabello are set to take the stage for the fifth annual iHeartRadio Music Awards, set for Sunday, March 11, at the Forum in Los Angeles, California With Hailey Baldwin and DJ Khaled tapped to host, the ceremony will simulcast live on[...]